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The AgenticChiro Playbook

How David Hunter turned cortextOS into a property-management product & resale business — and the 1:1 map to a chiropractic version. Sourced from James Goldbach's Agent Architects community, June 19 2026.

One line: David forked cortextOS into "AscendOps" for property management, encoded his domain expertise as decision trees, ran Playwright browser-bots against the software with no APIs, named the agent, and sells community + coaching at $99/mo → $5K install. We already run the hardest technical piece for VE/TTC. The gap is packaging it as a resellable template, not building it.

1 · Who is David

David Hunter — Chattanooga / Nashville, TN. Owns Ascend Property Management (420 doors) and DBH Construction (licensed GC). Building Dane IQ, an AI-dispatch SaaS for property managers. Runs everything on a Mac Mini at home. Currently #1 on the 30-day Agent Architects leaderboard.

Started Sept 2025 on Replit/Lovable trying to fix his own maintenance-coordination pain. Joined James's community Feb 26 2026, migrated to Railway + Cloudflare in March, and within weeks had a product (Dane IQ) and a teaching brand (AscendOps).

His stated principle: "Focusing on a niche and hammering hard at that one problem is the easiest way to make money in AI."

2 · The build — how it actually works

AscendOps = a specialized cortextOS fork

He renamed cortextOS to AscendOps and loaded it with property-management domain knowledge. The agent is named "Dane" and runs 24/7. Students who pay get the repo; when a student builds a useful agent (e.g. a leasing specialist built a renewals agent), they push it back to his repo — so every member inherits it. The community becomes a distributed build team that compounds the repo's value.

Stack (all confirmed from his posts)

cortextOS core as the harness.
OpenClaw — Telegram remote control (he integrated every skill James posted).
Life OS — task system, memory, nighttime work mode, proactive "thinking ahead."
M2C1 — autonomous build framework: brain-dump → full plan → executes while he drives between job sites.
Scheduled crons — morning brief 7:30, heartbeat every 30 min, end-of-day wrap 8:30, all pushed to Telegram.
Playwright browser automation against AppFolio and Property Meld — "since they don't have real APIs."
iMessage skill — agent texts technicians and vendors directly.
Token optimization — runs as many Haiku agents as possible; simplified logic so cheap models can handle it.

Architecture — "Brains" vs "Hands"

VPS (cloud) = the Brains. Maintenance Coordinator, Vendor Routing, and Resident Communication brains. They reason, apply rules, decide workflows.

Mac Mini = the Hands. Browser-operator agents, each with its own isolated Chrome profile. Every browser task runs through a queue: reserve a profile → execute → return result → release the profile.

The loop: VPS brain → asks the Mac for current state → Mac reports → VPS decides the action → Mac executes in the browser → Mac confirms → VPS logs the next step.

The single biggest insight: he encoded his judgment as decision trees before runtime. The agent isn't "deciding" in real time — it's executing his codified expertise. Months of work turning a property manager's intuition into rules. That, not the tech, is the moat.

3 · How he makes money

Tier	Price	What you get
Free community	$0	Skool community access (skool.com/agentic-pm)
Repo access	$99/mo	AscendOps repo + weekly live builds (Thu noon EDT) + monthly 3-hr deep build
Done-With-You	$5,000 + $500/mo	12-week bootcamp, build one PM agent/week, then $500/mo inner circle
High-ticket (testing)	$10,000 + $2,500/mo	Capped 20–40 people; raises in $500–$1,000 steps as demand grows
Strategy call	$500	2-hr working session, maps 10–15 hrs/wk of savings + implementation plan

Funnel: agenticpm.io (built on Lovable) + Google Calendar booking → free 30-min discovery call → qualify → Skool signup → DIY install frustration becomes the designed upgrade trigger → done-with-you. Free lead magnet: a "PM AI Starter Kit" (Playbook + Questionnaire + Prompt Pack) for email capture.

Distribution: pure conference + webinar play, zero paid ads. Spoke at the Southern States PM Conference, invited to the National conference, presenting a July webinar to ~600 property managers.

Traction (as of June 2026)

57 community membersfirst $997/mo member signed5 asking about the $5K tierinto Property Meld dev program (API + OAuth)Property Meld CEO (18k clients) DMed himaccepted into Crane (225 vetted PM execs)

4 · The chiro version — a near copy-paste

The structural play maps 1:1 onto what we already run for Van Every / TTC. The hardest technical part — browser-automating software with no public API — is something we've already solved for ChiroHD and SKED.

David's PM system	Chiropractic equivalent
Dane IQ work-order triage → vendor routing	Patient intake → appointment routing (new / acute / wellness)
Maintenance Coordinator Brain	Front-desk / scheduling coordinator agent
Resident Communication Brain (texts tenants)	Patient communication agent (reminders, follow-up, recall)
Playwright vs Property Meld / AppFolio (no API)	Playwright vs ChiroHD / SKED (no API — already running)
Encoded PM judgment as decision trees	Encode Dr. Zach's clinical routing (new vs returning, KST vs Talsky, urgency, outcome tracking)
iMessage to vendors/techs	SMS / iMessage to patients
AscendOps repo w/ community-contributed agents	"AgenticChiro" repo — clinicians contribute their own workflow agents
$99/mo repo · $5K install · $500/mo coaching	Same offer ladder for chiro office owners / managers

What we'd actually need to do

Productize, don't rebuild. The fleet already runs scheduled workflows, browser automation, Telegram control, memory, and nighttime mode. The work is packaging a clean "AgenticChiro" template + install path.
Codify the clinical decision trees — Dr. Zach's triage/routing rules as runtime logic, the same way David codified PM judgment.
Wrap it as an offer ladder — free community → repo access → done-with-you — and seed it through chiropractic conferences / CE events (the TTC Buffalo workshop is a natural first stage).
Let contributors compound the repo — other practices' agents (billing, recall, reviews) flow back in.

5 · What we couldn't see

The AscendOps repo is private — no public URL; you'd need a $99/mo membership to read the actual CLAUDE.md / agent structure.
His Dane IQ go-to-market doc is behind a Google Drive auth wall.
Inner-circle pricing is still being tested — no fixed published number.
The actual Playwright scripts for AppFolio / Property Meld are behind the paywall.
Some Feb–Mar posts truncated at "See more"; his newsletter is email-gated.

Next step if you want the repo internals: a $99/mo Agentic PM membership (skool.com/agentic-pm) would expose his CLAUDE.md, the Playwright scripts, and the decision-tree structure directly — cheap intel for a resale model we'd be building anyway.

Prepared by Sage · riles-fleet · 2026-06-19. Source: James Goldbach's Agent Architects (skool.com/agent-architects) + David Hunter's posts. Working notes: sage/local/notes/skool-david-hunter-ascendops-intel-2026-06-19.md.